Weight Loss Fads - Part 13 - Resveratrol Weight Loss Research

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Now it’s time to do some fact checking on the last popular weight loss supplement in this series: resveratrol.

Is there any truth behind the weight loss claims of resveratrol?

Has there even been ANY research done on humans to test the benefits of resveratrol?

Let’s find out…

Resveratrol Weight Loss Research

I searched around and found out that there actually has been a lot of different studies involving resveratrol and humans!

So far, we’re already doing better with resveratrol than any of the other weight loss fad supplements; but that’s quantity, not quality of results.

You see, none of the research done was to show that resveratrol causes humans to lose weight.

It doesn’t seem like we’re at that stage yet.

So the only successful weight loss studies you’ll find, when dealing with resveratrol, are animal studies.

Let’s look at some of the studies that have been done on humans anyway.

There was a trial to test the safety of resveratrol at different levels of dosages.

They tested 10 healthy participants with dosages ranging from half a gram to 5 grams.

The highest levels of resveratrol were found in their blood 1 ½ hours after a 5 gram dosage. So it IS absorbed by our bodies!

And there were no “serious adverse events”… so resveratrol is safe to consume, even at a 5 gram dosage!

But don’t get too excited, there’s a slight problem…

It doesn’t stay in our body very long at all. This study showed that 77% of the resveratrol was peed out, 4 hours after the lowest dosage!

You might not think that that’s a big deal, but most of the research done on cultured cells used resveratrol that wasn’t metabolized, like it is in your body. And that was at concentration levels up to 100 times higher than what’s been found in human blood after oral consumption of resveratrol!

You might be thinking, “But, that was only one study!” as I would be too. The problem is that these findings have been duplicated.

One study showed that 75% of resveratrol is excreted through urine and feces. You might be thinking that 25% left isn’t bad, but they also found that what was left was next to nothing of use because we metabolize it too quickly.

In another study with 6 participants, only traces of unchanged resveratrol were found in their bloodstream after an oral dose of 25 mg of trans-resveratrol.

So we can absorb resveratrol quickly, but it shoots right through us and whatever is left is either metabolized by our bodies into something else or too miniscule to amount to anything.

While I am glad that research is being done on humans, it doesn’t make sense that there are so many resveratrol supplements out there, considering the research. We don’t seem to have figured resveratrol out yet, so why are people supplementing with it?

Ignoring the fact that we metabolize and excrete it too quickly, where are the studies to show that it causes weight loss in humans!?

I’d hold off on your resveratrol supplementation if I were you, especially if you’re taking it for weight loss.

Let’s move on.

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